What should I do if I were the only disciple of Christ on earth?

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I worry that I would not be faithful. I’d fall off the wagon like Adam and Eve.
 
Fortunately you don’t have to worry about that as you do have many fellow followers of Jesus. Please don’t upset yourself with hypertheticals. Life has enough challenges.
Jesus said that each day has enough troubles of its own. (Matthew 6:34)

So we can just try in each moment and event to make good choices for our choices, words and actions, without becoming stressed about it.

The reality is that on earth we can only live in each present moment.
If we fail in this moment, or in the next, then we try to do better in the following moment or choice or response.

Even Jesus’ disciples, His constant companions, failed Him at crucial times, (and the only one who didn’t repent was the one who gave up, his greatest failure was that He didn’t trust God’s forgiveness even for the worst sin) bu Jesus would have forgiven him, if he hadn’t given up and despaired. So trust in Jesus’ merciful, personal love for you, and get up again to followHim.

If we fail … try again, with trust in God, as we strive to live in love of God,
and in practical kindness, respect, and prayer for others in our lives.
 
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I have thought something similar.
What if I was the only Catholic in America? However, I don’t think my faith would flinch. I am stubborn when it comes to my faith.
 
Love the Lord your God above all things and love your neighbor as yourself.
 
Proclaim Christ crucified for our sins for all to hear, just like the Apostle John did after all his companions had passed away.
 
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Even if you were the last, Jesus would still be with you and would be as willing to speak with you as he is now, with 7. something billion other souls on Earth.

Pray more.
 
@porthos11

Lol! If there’s only one humanoid on earth, then no one else, priest nor postman, nor bishop, could be present in this hypothetical!
 
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@porthos11

Lol! If there’s only one humanoid on earth, then no one else, priest nor postman, could be present in this hypothetical!
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In any case, here’s my take. If he’s the only disciple left, and no priests and bishops are alive, then the Church has fallen, since the Eucharist cannot be confected and people cannot be absolved. There is no Magisterium, and the gates of hell have prevailed.

This means that Jesus’ words have no meaning, he would be a liar, and the Christian faith is a sham. If you’re the only believer left, then stop believing, because what you believe in is false. That means I will simply do whatever I want, whenever I want, with only civil law and public order keeping me in line. Because absolutely nothing that the Catholic Church teaches will have any authority, because its founder, if he existed, would not have a leg to stand on.

Which is why the Church is indefectible. The Church may fail in some areas of the world (the middle east, for example) but because it’s indefectible, it will survive and Holy Orders will continue. This hypothetical therefore, based on Jesus’ promise, is not possible.

May the Heart of Jesus, in the Most Blessed Sacrament, be praised, adored, and loved with grateful affection at every moment in all the tabernacles of the world, even until the end of time. Amen.
 
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Posing a question like this topic is , in one sense, like talking aloud, first, to myself. But, it is in reality talking to the Church.

I’ve come closer to an answer with these responses. But, I started reading Cardinal Sarah’s new book The Day is Now Far Spent. He covers this topic in a way, alluding to the remnant (i.e. the Church) which will survive with faith in the covental relationship with God – “however destitute it may be, a little flock will always exist, a model for the Church and the world.”
 
This situation is similar to mine.

When I walk outside everyone except me is Muslim. It’s very hard possibility for me to meet a Catholic on street.
 
Certainly, I posed the question initially because it is a serious matter. My question was hypothetical, yours is very tangible. Before I retired, I was with people who did not seem friendly to Christianity.
 
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